The GOP and Nazis

It’s time to tone down the rhetoric. The GOP is not a Nazi party. Several statements from presidential hopeful frontrunners do smack of anti-democratic sentiments; some are positively frightening.

But the Republican Party is not a fascist party. While extremists have taken ahold in ways not imaginable just a few years ago, one hopes that this is a temporary aberration and the party will return to reason.

But heightened rhetoric, such as is now common on social media, doesn’t lead to a saner political climate. It simply joins the chorus of extremism of which there already has been too much.

Fight the fight but fight it in good faith by organizing, presenting a better plan and using the ballot box.

Professor Emeritus, Hofstra University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied ethics.
Leader Emeritus, Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island
Contributor to honeymoons.about.com and Psychology Today.
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